Recently turned 70 and received a book about notable things from each of the previous decades.  Anyone else remember some of these things from the early days?

How about
Captain Midnights secret decoder rings and that yucky ovaltine
Remember Pearl Harbor
Orange Crush brown bottles,
"Cool" guys who rolled a pack of smokes in white T-shirt sleeves.
Playing marbles for funsies and Keepsies
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man? The Shadow Knows
Victory Gardens  
Green stamps
Fibber Magee and Molley
Pong  
Tipping over outhouses on Halloween (I never did)
Black curtns during ww2
the expression "stink finger

Listening to ball games on the radio.
H&S green stamps.
Free glass with a fill up.
Eastern Airlines.  Peoples Express. I'm Suzie. Fly me. That reminds me of a provider!

Watching my first color TV boradcast (Green Bay Packers and seeing the grass green and the color uniforms for the first time on TV was amazing)
Watching TV the weekend JFK was assasinated and Ruby shooting Oswald live on TV while we watched
Having only 5-6 channels on TV to watch
Howdy Doody
Walking to grammar school everday
Donna Reed (model for how I remember my own mother)
Women wearing girdles and stockings and no pantyhose (and getting glimpses of these wonders upskirt from time to time)
Feeling shocked when my friend told me he actually saw a movie in NYC where you could see a woman's hairy pussy!  Way before the days of on-line porn
Getting aroused reading the old detective magazines with their black and white photos of "women in distress"

I remember most of these, and it's interesting to see how many of them we shared.  Was that a precursor to interest in the hobby?  Anyway...

How about "party line telephone service"
UHF antennas (which at least for me introduced the concept of more than one channel TV)
Racially segregated bathrooms, water fountains and restaurants;
Legalization of liquor by the drink
Silver dimes, quarters and 50 cent pieces
Steel pennies

? 5-6 tv channels - you were lucky - I never lived in a place wih more than 1 until I was 19, and didn't see color tv till my 20s (it was around, we just didn't have one)
 

Missing my spot on the Titanic because I was too busy watching Willie Shakespeare's latest:  Hamlet!

Saving Private Ryan - from the Confederate Army!

Searching everywhere for the key to my house when I discovered that Ben Franklin had swiped it for one of his electrical experiments.

Pledging allegiance to King George, The First!

Greeting the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

Played the first game of polo with Marco Polo at the Polo Grounds.

Told Caesar to watch his back on the Ides of March.

Complimented Queen Cleopatra on the shape and size of her pyramids.

Told Moses to go back to Egypt after I accidently set a bush on fire that I was hiding behind.

Fell off my dinosaur when I first heard these jokes.

White Cream Soda with the blue cap (10c).

Kukla Fran & Ollie
Captain Kangaroo.. Mr. Green Jeans.. and The Banana Man.. (Woooo.. Woooow.. )
My first dial phone ( I remember my number when I was a kid.. 446J

Me Thinks you exaggerates a wee bit Mr Fisher, I'll bet you don't even remember Ted Williams giving the press box the finger or the time in an All Star game where he hit a Blooper Ball out of the park. I was listening to the game and I ran a red light when that happened. So Sonny, we are on to you.  8o)

Went to Vietnam in 1967 and back again 1970 after that I'm so freakin high all the time and altered my memory became alcoholic, spent a lot of time in Tijuana the only place to drink at the time, still under 21. Thanks for the US Courts system I recovered in the nighties, but just a bit's and pieces about the baseball games broadcast by Tony Garaciola, Cincinnati Red, Dodgers, Yankees, Kansas City Royals and all those, all day Saturday cartoons shows on TV, always reminds me that no matter stupid they are I know I am home...69

Your mention of baseball games on the radio reminded me of this one. My town had a Triple AAA baseball team. In the evenings I would listen to the local announcers doing the broadcast. Didn't realize it then, but they were actually in the radio studio recreating the ongoing plays after reading what happened on a ticker tape sent from the stadium.  I remember hearing the constant rat-a-tat-tat of the ticker tape spitting out the information in the background.

Subway seats made of woven shellacked straw;

I had them all:

Delilah, Nefertiti, and all the sluts that King Solomon had.  Read the Biblical book, Song of Songs for more details.

I've always wondered if Cleopatra was a slut? In one of your previous lives did you ever nail her? 8o)

How about Lou Gehrig's " I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" speech

Lucky Strike cigarets (L.S./M.F.T., remember what that means?) often seen rolled in T-shirt sleeves
Frankie Laine singing the "Rawhide" show song (...keep them doggies movin...)
Dinah Shore singing the Chevrolet jingle (See the USA in your Chevrolet...)
World Series Game 7, 1960. Pirates beat the Yankees, 10 to 9. I listened to it on the school bus radio.

Also records.

This sounds like my father talking to my grandfather, or vice versa, and I'm not even a young provider

First pack of cigarettes I ever bought were Luckies in a green pack. Then "Lucky Strike green went to war."
We used to say LS/MFT meant "let's screw, my finger's tired."o

LS/MFT means Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.  And then there were Raleigh cigarettes with a coupon in each package that would be saved up and redeemed for merchandise.  Then there was also "I'd walk a mile for a Camel" (cigarette).

Ok. So I still see GILF providers. Being that I'm of that old old grandfather vintage you mention, do you still see guys my age?

And we got to listen to our National Anthem just before they went to the test screen.

I was told by the big kids it Meant "Lets  Stop My Fingers Tired" But Lucky Strike Ad makers it meant Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.

I dismantled one of my sister's clamp on skates and screwed the wheels to a board to make my first skateboard. Narrow steel wheels with no traction, it's a wonder that I didn't break my neck.

A kid in my class at school invited me over just to see color TV. And we only had one channel for the longest time, I remember what a big deal it was when a second one became available on UHF, reception wasn't very good, but it was a second channel. I also remember going down to the appliance store with my dad with a box full of vacuum tubes from our first TV to use the testing machine to find the failed tube.

And the metal wheels made a racket.

As a matter of fact, I do. I also remember trying to take out the tray that collected the melted ice without spilling it. I seldom succeeded. I was about 6 Y.O.

Same as I remember.  Also had the milk man, the diaper truck, and the junk man.

How primitive.  How did you survive?

I wonder why I can remember things that happened more than 70 years ago but now I can't remember where I left my cell phone 8o(

That's funny Miss Marie. So when having a session with a 60 and over gentleman, do you ever have  father/grandfather moments that creep you out?

Hanging out by the local well waiting to pick up a provider...

I can relate cooper80, I believed they called it SELECTIVE MEMORY. as we go higher every year in the aged brackets our mind, goes into a default system and only remember the BEST things that ever happen to us and a little reminder of a few unfortunate/sad/painful things around us that can get over it quickly and move on and all the material things or the rest were not so important to us. like eyeglasses, keys, cellphone, jewelry etc, etc, (70). But when it comes to my hobby, I know how many and exactly when and how to refill my ED pills ain't that amazing talking about losing my memory or having a selective sharp memory at the same moments. LOL

The Helms Bakery truck he used to come up to your driveway and blow his whistle he would get out of his truck and open the back doors and pull out this long wooden drawer with all kinds of pastries, I would get a cream puff (the kind you eat and digest not the kind you lick and suck on) What about the old Oscar Mayer wiener jingle it goes like this,  If I was an Oscar Mayer wiener all the little girls would eat me OSCAR MAYER oscar  mayer.

Not sure how I survived the traumas of chores but I do remember my first "play date" I think I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. I had two aunts who worked in the 2 theaters in my small town, one was a cashier and the other one operated the popcorn concession . I ask a little girl if she would like to go to a movie on Saturday. To my amazement she said, "Yes" My aunts were terrific and treated us like kiddy royalty.

and 8 when The Blob did.  Who can I sue?  

Green stamps were on the way out when I was a child but still remember that green stamps machine near the register. My mom never collected the stamps. People's Express-used them when I flew to Europe- so cheap!

He doesn't spend our dates talking about rotary phones and carburetors! Lol  

Mostly even, and I don't feel odd about it at all (kayjayjay wrote me a particularly nice review along those lines).

Us old guys learned long ago that the ladies prefer an injector to power the engine, not the old fashioned carburetor.  And as is said in the drag racing world........injection is nice, but I'd rather be blown.

I was too young to smoke so we said it meant "Loose Straps means Floppy Tits"  we were clever 10 year olds.  And I remember milk delivered to your door in Glass Bottles.

From the above list, I watched the Lone Ranger, remember several types of trading stamps, especially S&H Green Stamps, went to Saturday afternoon movies that cost much less than 50 cents and included cartoons and serials as well as the featured movie, still have my boxes of 45 records and a pair of clamp-on roller skates in the garage, remember Beat the Clock with Bud Collier, who had a sexy blonde sidekick named Roxanne, and was sponsored by Sylvania flashbulbs ("with the blue dot for sure shot"), and even remember the jingle:

I'm fascinated by decades gone by and I've read about many of these things.  Someone further along in the post mentions Victory gardens, which I loved learning about, and of roller skates that attached to shoes, which I had a pair of as a kid in the 80s, that passed down to me.  The wheels wobbled like crazy and were so worn down that my teeth chattered when I skated on asphalt.